UseRs will be introduced to web crawling and HTML parsing. In this introductory web scraping workshop the rvest package is used to deconstruct a target site by transforming web site data into structured data. A brief and limited introduction to the HTML specifications is provided along with basic Tidyverse-style iteration (i.e. purrr::map().
install.packages("rvest")
The 'R We Having Fun Yet?' learning series is part of the broader Data & Visualization Services workshop series. DVS offers workshops on [R], Python, GIS and mapping, Research Data Management, and Visualization.
The blog features semester summaries of our workshop series and extra bits of information which may assist you in your practical data science journeys.
All workshops were recorded and are now available for streaming
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Rfun is a campus/community-oriented data science training-series focusing on learning the R programming language and the Tidyverse ecosystem. We are hosted by the Center for Data & Visualization Sciences http://library.duke.edu/data
Center for Data & Visualization Sciences
Duke University Libraries
Durham, NC 27708